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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.


Francis Bacon Sr.

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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev...
C. JOYBELL C. It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho...
MARK RYLANCE We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe b...
JOHN PIPER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES Who is the first farmer? The good book says: God planted a garden. So God is the first, then Adam, a...
SOTONYE ANGA The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 Ask not God the trial of man and ask not man the greatness of God.
JOVIAN KRYNICKI 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE

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FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
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FRANCIS BACON Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
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